fausse spirée
\fos spi.ʁe\
The verdict
“fausse spirée” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 13
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — Nom vernaculaire donné à plusieurs plantes d’aspect plus ou moins semblable comme principalement la reine-des-prés (Filipendula ulmaria), mais aussi à certaines plantes du genre Astilbe ainsi qu’à ...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | fausse spirée |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \fos spi.ʁe\ |
| Letters | 13 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “fausse spirée” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for fausse spirée is 13 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \fos spi.ʁe\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Nom vernaculaire donné à plusieurs plantes d’aspect plus ou moins semblable comme principalement la reine-des-prés (Filipendula ulmaria), mais aussi à certaines plantes du genre Astilbe ainsi qu’à ...".
No misspelling variants are generated for fausse spirée in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is fausse spirée, spelled F-A-U-S-S-E- -S-P-I-R-É-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Nom vernaculaire donné à plusieurs plantes d’aspect plus ou moins semblable comme principalement la reine-des-prés (Filipendula ulmaria), mais aussi à certaines plantes du genre Astilbe ainsi qu’à Sorbaria sorbifolia qui est nommé fausse spirée à feuilles de sorbier ; toutes ces végétaux sont de la famille des Rosaceae (Rosacées).
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “fausse spirée”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is F-A-U-S-S-E- -S-P-I-R-É-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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